Needs To Engage In A Better Way

(My boyfriend and I are curled up in bed, and I’m upset because he leaves me in a few days to go back home and leave me stateside. We’ve been dating for seven years at this point and are talking about marriage before I break down.)

Boyfriend: *consoling me* “Honey, I have a question.”

Me: *sniffling* “What?”

Boyfriend: “Do we have to do anything special to get married, because I really want to be your husband.”

Me: *now giggling* “That’s how you’re going to propose?!”

(For the follow-up, his way of asking my dad was ‘I’m going to marry her, okay?’ We have laughed about this and yes, I am engaged to him.)